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To: Jeffery E. Forrest who wrote (4236)	8/21/1997 3:24:00 PM
From: Scrapps	of 22053

They found the shrunken head Jeff! Now would you trade your head for a musket?? Thursday August 21 11:00 AM EDT Maoris want shrunken head back from Britain <!-- TextStart --> WELLINGTON, New Zealand (Reuter) - New Zealand Maori Affairs minister Tau Henare on Thursday called for the return of a 19th century Maori head, exhumed from a pauper's grave in the British city of Liverpool. Henare said he wanted to speak with the British government about the repatriation of the shrunken head, discovered last week in a Liverpool graveyard along with the head of an Aboriginal warrior and the remains of a mummified Peruvian baby. "We're just waiting for confirmation that it's a Maori head," Henare told National Radio. "I'm actually interested in sitting down with the British government or a representative of the British government and working out some sort of plan of attack of how do we get these things back when they do come up." The head was held by the Liverpool city museum before it was buried in 1964 after its condition began to deteriorate. Maori leaders have supported Henare's call for the return of the head. "It's only right that we repatriate the remains of our ancestors," said Sir Graham Latimer, a central figure in the settling of Maori land and Treaty of Waitangi grievances. "Unless we bring them back to their home, they won't be able to rest," he said. It was an ancient Maori custom to preserve the head of a person who died away from their home village and take it back to the tribe for burial, so that the spirit could be laid to rest. The heads, often distinguished by intricate tattoos, became prized by Europeans who arrived in New Zealand in the 19th century. The heads were often traded for muskets.<!-- TextEnd --><!-- StartRelated --><!-- EndRelated -->

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